Publication Date
2008
Publication Place
Leuven ; Dudley, MA -
Peeters, 2008.
Subject
Sculpture, Hellenistic, Hellenism, Idols and images -- Middle East., Idols and images -- Worship, Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D., 2010jan
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
769
Physical Dimensions
24 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!101876~!4120
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2008
Notes
"All the contributions in this volume stem from an international conference that took place on November 7 to 10, 2004, at the University of Michigan and the Toledo Museum of Art."--Acknowledgements, p. [xxiii]., Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-750) and index.. "All the contributions in this volume stem from an international conference that took place on November 7 to 10, 2004, at the University of Michigan and the Toledo Museum of Art."--Acknowledgements, p. [xxiii]., Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-750) and index.. 101876. xxvii, 769 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm.
İçindekiler
Reconsidering Hellenism in the Roman Near East : introductory remarks / Glen Bowersock -- The nature of Syrian Hellenism in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods / Maurice Sartre -- The Jews in the Roman world / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Marble sculpture of the Roman period in the Near East and its Hellenistic origins / Gideon Foerster -- The sculptor's studio at Aphrodisias : the working methods and varieties of sculpture produced / Peter Rockwell -- The classical heritage in late antique Palestine : the fate of freestanding sculptures / Yoram Tsafrir -- The destruction of pagan statuary and Christianization (fourth-sixth century C.E.) / Frank R. Trombley -- The imperial cult in the East : images of power and the power of intolerance / John Pollini -- Statues on the wall : the representation of statuary in Roman wall painting / Eric M. Moormann -- Narrative and identity in mosaics from the late Roman Near East : pagan, Jewish, and Christian / Fergus Millar -- The missing pieces : miniature reflections of the Hellenistic artistic landscape in the East / Sharon Herbert -- Statues and inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina / Werner Eck -- Baetyls as statues? : cult images in the Roman Near East / Peter Stewart -- Visualizing deities in the Roman Near East : aspects of Athena ad Athena-Allat / Elise A. Friedland -- Roman sculpture from the exedra in the Temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra / Fawzi Zayadine -- Sculptures from southern Syrian sanctuaries of the Roman period / Thomas M. Weber -- The statues of the sanctuary of Allat in Palmyra / Michal Gawlikowski -- The role of sculpture in worship at the temples of Dura-Europos / Susan B. Downey -- Divine statues in the works of Libanius of Antioch : the actual and rhetorical desacralization of pagan cult furniture in the late fourth century C.E. / Ellen Perry -- Imagining an eastern Roman empire : a riot at Antoch in 387 C.E. / Raymond Van Dam -- Sculpture in Roman Palestine and its architectural and social milieu : adaptability, imitation, originality? : the Ascalon basilica as an example / Moshe L. Fischer -- Caesarean sculpture in context / Rivka Gersht -- Caesarea's fortune : ancient statuary and the beholder in a late antique city / Kenneth G. Holum -- Sculptures and sculptural images in urban Galilee / Zeʾev Weiss -- Roman victory displayed : symbols, allegories, personifications? / Benjamin Isaac -- The desolating sacrilege : a Jewish-Christian discourse on statuary, space, and sanctity / Yaron Z. Eliav -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia : the evidence of the Babylonian Talmud / Richard Kalmin -- The vitality of Egyptian images in late antiquity : Christian memory and response / David Frankfurter.
ISBN
9789042920040 (pbk.), 9042920041 (pbk.)
Seri
Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 9
